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Monica Brady-Myerov left her job as a reporter at Boston public radio station WBUR last year to launch Listen Edition. The startup has grown to serve an estimated 35,000 students across the country since launching.

An estimated 35,000 middle-schoolers across the country are now learning science and social studies lessons through public radio stories curated by Boston-based edtech startup Listen Edition.

The startup, founded by former public radio reporter Monica Brady-Myerov, is seeing significant growth since its launch a year ago and will roll out a new interactive, customizable website for teachers and students this summer.

Listen Edition offers a subscription-based website geared toward middle school that allows teachers to use science and social studies-related public radio stories in the classroom and create lesson plans around them.

The service is now being used by 140 schools and school districts, up from 25 last October, Brady-Myerov said.

"There's been a good amount of confirmation that we're on the right path and this is a product people value and schools will buy," she said in an interview.

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